13 December 2004 Turkey in the EU? By Gwynne Dyer “I am absolutely in favour of Turkey’s membership in the European Union,” said Poland’s President Aleksander Kwasniewski in September. “We will support it. But — if we say yes’ to Turkey — it is a question then what we will say to Ukraine.” The EU […]
26 April 2004 Where Does Europe End? By Gwynne Dyer As of the 1st of May, the European Union’s easternmost land border will be with Russia, and its sea frontier will be halfway between Cyprus and Lebanon. The entry of ten new member countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the
25 January 2004 Cyprus At Last By Gwynne Dyer After thirty years of armed partition, the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus will probably enter the European Union as a reunited, bi-communal republic next May. Only days before Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits President George W. Bush in Washington, the Turkish army finally ended
25 January 2004 Cyprus At Last By Gwynne Dyer After thirty years of armed partition, the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus will probably enter the European Union as a reunited, bi-communal republic next May. Only days before Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits President George W. Bush in Washington, the Turkish army finally ended its
9 November 2003 Clever Man in Ankara By Gwynne Dyer “If wanted, we’ll go; if not, we won’t,” said Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month, as the discussions about sending the Turkish army into Iraq descended into farce. Now it has all fallen apart, and he is looking very hurt in public, but
10 August 2003 Muslim Democracy in Turkey By Gwynne Dyer It goes against all the stereotypes about Turkey. Talk to the party secretary of the traditionally secular Republican People’s Party in a small south coast town and she sounds old-fashioned and anti-democratic with her talk of the Turkish army as the ‘last resort’ against the
5 December 2002 Turkey in Europe By Gwynne Dyer It was Valery Giscard d’Estaing, former president of France and now head of the convention on the constitutional future of Europe, who broke the long, embarrassed silence in early November. Turkey, he said, is “not a European country.” It has “a different culture, a different approach,